Death Of A Naturalist!

Positive Images:

Delicatley

Negative Images:

Rotted there

Punishing sun

Weighted down

Festered

Sweltered

Oxymoron:

Gargled Delicately

Metaphor:

Strong gauze of sound around the smell

Dragon-flies, spotted butterflies

Phrase which sounds like a child describing the scene...

'But best of all'

Identify the ugly image that would be appealing to a child...

'the warm thick slobber of Frogspawn'

Onomatopoeia...

'slobber'

Similie...

'like clotted water'

These techniques are effective as they emphasize the adjectives been used, they draw the reader into the poem and make them interested.

 How do we know the boy's interest was created by a nature lesson at school?

 He mentions a 'Miss Walls', this suggets he is talking about a teacher, a teacher from his school when he was younger.

What is the tone of the first section of the poem?

The tone of the poem is happy, the adjectives used compliment nature and the tadpoles, there is a good atmosphere.



How do we know that this section of the poem describes an experience later in the summer? Is it a pleasing image of the season?

'Then one hot day when fields were rank with cowdung', i wouldnt say this was a pleasing image as the word 'rank' suggests it is horrible.

How are the ugly frogs made to sound ugly and threatning?

- angry frogs

- invaded

- the air was thick was a bass chorus

- dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked

- on sods

- loose necks pulsed like sails

- slap and plop were obscene threats

- mud grenades

- blunt heads farting

- great slime kings

- venegnece

- that if i dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it

Why does this experience cause the 'death' of the naturalist?
'I sickened, turned and ran'

How is the tone of this section of the poem different from the first stanza?

The tone in this section of the poem is very different to the first stanza. This is because the first stanza has a happy feel as it mentions words such as 'delicatley', 'butterflies', 'spring' and 'sun', we know that this could be set in the summer. However the tone of this stanza is angry, upsetting, disgusted.